Winter, John Black, and Feedback

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11 March 2005

Written by: paperboy Posted under Purposefully Primitive People, Website News, Miscellaneous,

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To be stupid, selfish and have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though is stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

WINTER REDUX: Check out the photo I took inside the unheated garage our back of the Mountain Compound. marty's garage The thermometer read 24-degrees. I left the door open to get a breeze and I still havent fixed the top left window pane that Chuck Deluxe broke throwing the football inside the garage. Note the power rack this is the key piece of equipment for any hardcore Purposeful Primitive trainee. The power rack allows me to bench press and squat by myself without spotters. If I miss a rep I ride the bar down to the pre-set pins and scoot out from underneath. In addition the power rack allows me to do partial reps and serves as a base for seated overhead presses and pulls from various heights. The overhead cross-member is my chinning bar and those weird blue things dangling down are used to do hanging leg raises. I can do dips and if you look close you can make out the primitive overhead pulldown device that allows me to do pulldowns, tricep pushdowns and low pulley curls and cable rows. This power rack contraption costs 350-400 bucks and along with a pile of plates, a couple of bars, a bunch of fixed dumbbells and an adjustable incline/decline bench are all you need to do some serious progressive resistance training at home. My workout that I did when I took this photo went as follows: decline sit-ups super-setted with Romanian deadlifts these two exercises blast the front and back of the core and are a great way to warm-up. Four sets of each. Then onto barbell rows super-setted with hanging leg raises: no muscular conflict here, one exercise does not cut into the performance of the other. Four sets of each. High pulls done from knee height: use a clean grip and looking for acceleration and height. Four straight sets. Chins with bodyweight: four sets to failure. Pull-ups with body weight: two sets to failure. Standing barbells curls: two sets. Seated dumbbell curls: two sets. Preacher curls: two sets. Killer. I promise you by the time I got one-third through the workout the cold was forgotten. By the time I finished the hood on the sweatshirt came off and I was sweating bullets. A friend gave me a Marvin Gaye live album and that powered the workout.

BLACK ATTACK: John Black is a legend in the obscure splinter sport of powerlifting and he and I have known each other for twenty three years. I am doing a three part interview with John for Powerlifting USA magazine and he and I talked yesterday for an hour and a half for part one. John is from Cleveland and put together the most dominant national teams ever seen in the sport. Part I of the article covers the years from 1973 to 1981 and the cast of characters who lifted on these squads would make for a perfect Pirate crew. They werent called The Wild Bunch on account of they liked western movies. I was recruited to coach for Blacks for five successive years and some of the tales are hair-raising, death-defying, miraculous and insane. Ill likely run the PG version on the website once I bang Part I into shape.

I WOULD LIKE SOME FEEDBACK: Is anyone reading the articles? I went through the postings today and while I was surprised at the great questions, I noted that no one had any direct comments on the articles themselves do we have too much stuff hanging? My idea was to post something monthly on progressive resistance, cardio, nutrition, pure strength, a miscellaneous musing and perhaps a rotating overview. This is not cast in stone and if no one is reading these perhaps we should streamline to site to make it more user-friendly. Come to think of it I didnt see any feedback on this daily stream of consciousness blurb? Is anyone reading this stuff?

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